{"id":3675,"date":"2014-04-29T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2014-04-29T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:01:36","slug":"blindelephant-web-application-fingerprinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2014\/04\/blindelephant-web-application-fingerprinter\/","title":{"rendered":"BlindElephant &#8211; Web Application Fingerprinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BlindElephant Web Application Fingerprinter attempts to discover the version of a (known) web application by comparing static files at known locations against precomputed hashes for versions of those files in all all available releases. The technique is fast, low-bandwidth, non-invasive, generic, and highly automatable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5493\/14052622734_dbed214369.jpg\" alt=\"BlindElephant\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BlindElephant can be used directly as a tool on the command line, or as a library to provide fingerprinting functionality to another program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast, low-resource approach (generally <6 seconds and < 400kb)<\/li>\n<li>Support for 15 commonly deployed web apps (and hundreds of versions), and very easy to add support for more<\/li>\n<li>Support for web app plugins (Drupal and WordPress currently, more with community input)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other similar projects such as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2010\/01\/wafp-web-application-finger-printing-tool\/\">WAFP \u2013 Web Application Finger Printing Tool<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2010\/05\/whatweb-next-gen-web-scanner-identify-cms-content-management-system\/\">WhatWeb \u2013 Next Gen Web Scanner \u2013 Identify CMS (Content Management System)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2014\/02\/wig-webapp-information-gatherer-identify-cms\/\">wig \u2013 WebApp Information Gatherer \u2013 Identify CMS<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2012\/10\/web-sorrow-v1-48-version-detection-cms-identification-enumeration-server-scanning-tool\/\">Web-Sorrow v1.48 \u2013 Version Detection, CMS Identification &#038; Enumeration<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2011\/04\/wappalyzer-web-technology-identifier-identify-cms-javascript-etc\/\">Wappalyzer \u2013 Web Technology Identifier (Identify CMS, JavaScript etc.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can grab BlindElephant from the SVN repo here:<\/p>\n<pre>svn co https:\/\/blindelephant.svn.sourceforge.net\/svnroot\/blindelephant\/trunk blindelephant<\/pre>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blindelephant.sourceforge.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BlindElephant Web Application Fingerprinter attempts to discover the version of a (known) web application by comparing static files at known locations against precomputed hashes for versions of those files in all all available releases. The technique is fast, low-bandwidth, non-invasive, generic, and highly automatable. BlindElephant can be used directly as a tool on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[5391,284],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}